Neoptolemus

It was he who, with Ischander, son of Neoptolemus, as his understudy, addressed the Council, and addressed the Assembly, on this subject, and persuaded them to send ambassadors to all the Greek states to convene a conference at Athens for the consideration of war with Philip.

So on the strength of his policy at that time, and of the sample he had exhibited of his conduct, he was actually appointed as one of the ambassadors when you were induced by Aristodemus, Neoptolemus, Ctesiphon and others, who had brought entirely misleading reports from Macedonia, to send an embassy to negotiate peace with Philip.

Accordingly he sent those envoys who addressed you in his name with so much courtesy—Neoptolemus, Aristodemus, and Ctesiphon.

And Diomedes was driven from home, being of repute in the war second to none, and Neoptolemus, whether by Greeks or by some others;

but Neoptolemus the son of Achilles, quite young, and Philoctetes, formerly disregarded because of his disease, and such helps from home, weak and scanty.

For Memnon, having great repute, was wounded mortally, and Neoptolemus killed the Amazon, who had run down to the ships too boldly and was trying to burn them, fighting from the ship with a sea-pike;

his actions will prove him a worthy scion of Peleus and Achilles.

and I myself am come to Hellas as a slave, though I was esteemed a daughter of a race most free, given to Neoptolemus that island-prince, and set apart for him as his special prize from the spoils of Troy.

For his sire stands not by my side to lend his aid and cannot avail his child at all, being absent in the land of Delphi, where he is offering recompense to Loxias for the madness he committed, when on a day he went to Pytho and demanded of Phoebus satisfaction for his father’s death, if haply his prayer might avert those past sins and win for him the god’s goodwill hereafter.

Odysseus:

Odysseus:

Odysseus:

Neoptolemus abandons a resolution that he has been persuaded by Odysseus to adopt, because of the pain that it gives him to tell a lie:

And there are some who fail to abide by their resolves from some other cause than lack of self-restraint, for instance, Neoptolemus in the PhiIoctetes of Sophocles.

Neoptolemus, indeed, in Ennius says that he must needs philosophize, but only a little, for he had no liking for it altogether.

Yet still, in a busy life, and a soldier's, such as Neoptolemus then led, even a few things often profit much and bear fruit — if not so great as can be reaped from philosophy entire, yet at least such fruits as in some part now and then set us free from desire or from distress or from fear.

Then there is our friend Neoptolemus, who has received distinctions for donations given by him as Commissioner for sundry public works.

And I shall not in this case, as in the former one, find fault with those who spoke in defence of Neoptolemus, for not a man defended him, but with yourselves.

Again, men of Athens, when I saw that Neoptolemus, the actor, enjoying safe conduct under cover of his profession, was doing his best to injure our city and was Philip’s agent and representative at Athens, I once more came forward and addressed you, not out of private animosity or love of informing, as indeed my subsequent conduct has proved.

Yet I suppose that by this time you have all observed that after visiting the enemy, in order, as he alleged, to collect sums owing to him there which he might spend on public services here, and after making copious use of the argument that it was too bad to arraign men who were transferring wealth from Macedonia to Athens, he secured a safe conduct owing to the peace, converted into cash all the …

so slay me, that death may find me free;

It is the Achaeans’ will to sacrifice your daughter Polyxena at the mound heaped over Achilles’ grave;

and the son of Achilles took Polyxena by the hand and set her on the top of the mound, while I was near;

Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will;

for Neoptolemus is already out at sea, having heard that new calamities have befallen Peleus, for Acastus, son of Pelias, has banished him from the realm.

Neoptolemus came to help, to the great navel of the broad-bosomed earth.

But my heart will never say that I have done violence to Neoptolemus with cruel words.

and there he met with a quarrel over the flesh of his sacrifice, and a man struck him with a knife.

The tragic actor Neoptolemus, near Rhoeteum the burial-place of Troy, warned in dreams by Ajax himself, frees his tomb from ruin, and, when he puts down the rubbish of the stones, returns thence rich with gold.